America returns spacecraft to the moon, this is the first private sector

The remaining merchandise was sent on behalf of Intuitive Machines' private customers, and includes 125 stainless steel Mini Moons created by artist Jeff Koons. The cargo can last for seven days before lunar night falls, rendering Odysseus inactive. NASA paid Intuitive Machines US$118 million to ship its hardware under a new initiative called Commercial Lunar […]

Japan launches ‘Moon Sniper’ mission: SLIM lander will make precise landing on the moon’s surface

Japan’s compact lander, officially called Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM), is designed to land within 100 meters of a specific target on the Moon, much shorter than the normal range of several kilometers . “Creating a SLIM lander will bring a qualitative change towards humans being able to land where we want, not […]

India’s space agency aims to achieve another milestone with the launch of a probe to study the Sun on Saturday

Raychaudhuri said the mission probe will study coronal mass ejections, a periodic phenomenon in which massive discharges of plasma and magnetic energy are seen from the Sun’s atmosphere. These explosions are so powerful that they can reach Earth and potentially disrupt the operation of satellites. “Aditya will help predict the event and alert everyone so […]